Word: mannerses
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It begins as a comedy of expensive manners, a satirical account of the marriage between a young man of good family and a young woman of not such good, but equally well-off family. They don't have just a photographer to record this less-than-historic occasion, an...
You see, sports at Harvard are hard to figure. On the one hand, Harvard maintains a well-funded, high-powered athletic machine that supports a major intercollegiate program, as well as a healthy intramural setup. But on the other hand, well, it is Ha-h-h-h-v-a-a...
Bureaucrats learn manners
The bureaucracy is now trying to teach itself better manners. The autodidactic exercise began after West Germany's Postal Minister, Kurt Gscheidle, suffered a frustrating run-in with his own employees while trying to buy stamps. Gscheidle was treated so rudely that he vowed to bring about a change...
One is sympathetic to Allen's problem. As great comedian to his age, he must have felt that the faintest suggestion of humor would have stirred audiences to a risibility from which he could not recover their attention. But, of course, the absence of wit does not necessarily betoken...